Centipede Hz, the 10th Animal Collective album, follows the widely celebrated Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) and it's the first since Strawberry Jam (2007) to feature all four original band members: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin. As the album's opening drum crashes and radio interference immediately make clear, Animal Collective have made their most widescreen and fully realized music to date. The album is a panoramic set of songs that shimmer with the confidence and wonder of Animal Collective's unique inner logic and the luminous warmth of their sound world.

Opening with torch-wielding villagers and a wall bleeding oil, ODDSAC attaches vivid scenery and strange characters to the wonderful melodic wavelengths of the band Animal Collective, revitalizing the lost form of the “visual album.” Working on the project for three years with friend Danny Perez, Animal Collective pushes the boundaries of the music video and joins music visionaries like The Residents, Devo, and Daft Punk, who previously connected film imagery with their songs.

Animal Collective have many, many strengths but brevity has never really been one of them. Until now, that is, because their M.O. for the follow-up to 2012’s Centipede Hz was "no B.S, get in, get out material." Recorded at the Hollywood studio where The Beach Boys created Pet Sounds, and inspired by "Cubism, Dadaism, and the distorted way those artists viewed the world", Painting With is every bit as ambitious as previous Animal Collective records. And yet, out of the jumble of complex polyrhythms, psychedelic synth effects and hyperactive vocal harmonies, the trio have conjured a set that's flab-free and packed full of pop hooks.

Dizzyingly upbeat and gloriously realised, Animal Collective's new LP bounces and pops with an urgent, ecstatic energy, propelled by polyrhythmic beats and gurgling modular synth, with Noah Lennox and Dave Portner's vocals gleefully falling in and out of syncopation and off-kilter harmony. Working as a trio, Portner (Avey Tare), Lennox (Panda Bear) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) began trading demos in early 2015, pursuing a goal of what Portner calls "really short songs: no B.S, get in, get out material…" The three met up in Asheville during that Spring and began exploring the songs together.

Animal Collective’s new LP is reportedly finished, but before that sees the light of day, they’ve released a new live album culled from a June 12, 2013 show at Washington, D.C.’s hallowed 9:30 club. Appropriately titled Live at 9:30, this 3xLP is the first time they’ve officially released a full live show and based on the track list it seems like a solid one. A limited physical release of the record is available now via Domino and it’ll hit all digital retailers this Friday, September 4.